Whether it’s the very 2024 need to escape into another era or just the abundance of award-winning historical fiction authors coming up at the moment, we are here for the genre’s explosion in popularity. Fans of historical fiction are happily spoilt for choice. In its fall 2023 round-...
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She has won many prizes for her short fiction including the Francis MacManus Award, theJames Joyce QuarterlyFiction Contest and the UK’s Short Fiction Journal Prize and been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, ...
The History of the Devil is a classic historical and religious book universally considered one of Daniel Defoe’s greatest works of non-fiction. The book was first published in 1726 and made an immediate impact on English literature, society and the ecclesiastical community in the early 18th cent...
Since I love historical fiction, I've read hundreds of books in this genre, and chosen my favorites for this list. Titles are arranged in a loose timeline, starting with the Iron Age and finishing up in the 1990s. Some of these authors are well-known for their oeuvre of historical ...
from the Victorian Robert Ballantyne (The Coral Island) to the contemporary Richard Church and Leon Garfield (Devil-in-the-Fog); the “girls’ book,” often trash but possessing inCharlotte M. Yongeat least one writer of exceptional vitality; historicalfiction, from Marryat’s vigorous but simp...
Not much is known of Cade's biography beyond general information which has been coloured by tall tales and propaganda (most famously William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2), making it difficult to separate fact from fiction. In Opening Atlantis: New Hastings, Jack Cade's rebellion, which had...
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In her new book Beckett has provided a wide-ranging collection of book titles and authors to support the notion that crossover fiction as defined this way is neither [End Page 289] a new phenomenon nor a passing fad but a form of literature that has long existed. Her meticulous research ...
It is possible that methods like “spitting out a jug” had a basis in truth rather than being made up as literary fiction in Chinese people’s eyes at that time. This indicates that the magic the fable tells is not only a literary description or imagination but something related to the ...